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Members of the staff traveled outside Washington on official busi- 

 ness as follows : 



1956 



July 17-20. Mr. Gettens, in Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, con- 



sulted the Conservation, Oriental, and Photography De- 

 partments about old records and photographs on smalt. 

 Sampled three Fogg objects in connection with this tech- 

 nical problem. 



July 21-22. Dr. Ettinghausen, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Cincinnati Mu- 



seum of Art, to study Near Eastern and Indian collections. 



August 2-6. Dr. Ettinghausen, in Ann Arbor, at the University of Michi- 



gan, discussed Ars Orientalis III. Also visited the Kelsey 

 Museum of Archaeology to see a Coptic exhibition. 



August 7. Dr. Ettinghausen, in Detroit, to see the Near Eastern col- 



lection at the Detroit Institute of Arts. 



August 11. Dr. Ettinghausen, in Corning, N. Y., examined objects at 



the Corning Museum of Glass and discussed research prob- 

 lems with their staff. 



August 24. Dr. Ettinghausen, in Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, saw an 



exhibition of Islamic art and studied their photographic 

 collection. Examined objects at the Center of Middle 

 Eastern Studies and in two private collections. 



August 28. Dr. Ettinghausen, in Cambridge, examined Russian publica- 



tions on Near Eastern archeology in the Semitic Mu- 

 seum, Harvard University. In Boston, examined objects 

 at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Museum 

 of Fine Arts. 



September 4. Mr. Stern, in New York, examined objects at dealers. 



September 5. Miss Elisabeth West, in Toronto, Canada, at the Royal On- 



tario Museum of Archaeology, visited their laboratory 

 where she examined objects and obtained samples of early 

 Chinese blue glass for the Freer Gallery technical labora- 

 tory. 



September 6-7. Mr. Gettens, in Corning, N. Y., examined objects at the 

 Corning Museum of Glass and watched the processing and 

 etching of glass. 



September 20. Mr. Gettens, in Atlantic City, N. J., read a paper entitled 



"On the Origin of Smalt and the Early Use of Cobalt in 

 Blue Glass and Pottery Glazes" at a symposium held by 

 the American Chemical Society on "Ancient Chemistry." 

 Attendance, 30. 



October 5. Mr. Wenley and Mr. Stern, in Philadelphia, attended the 



opening of the exhibition of the Caspary Collection at the 

 Philadelphia Museum of Art. 



October 9. Dr. Ettinghausen, in Baltimore, examined objects at the 



Walters Art Gallery and the Baltimore Museum of Art. 



October 28-30. Mr. Wenley, in Ann Arbor, attended a meeting of the Freer 

 Fund Committee and conferred with staff members about 

 Ars Orientalis. 



